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Install GeoIP Nginx module - Debian

I'm seeking your help to install the Nginx GeoIP module, and all its dependencies. Actually, i tried a lot if things to build Nginx with it, but failed each time on same error.

My config: Debian 8.2, Nginx 1.9.7-1~jessie (last mainline), PHP7 RC7.

What i did:

  • Installed geoip-api-c 1.6.7 from source
  • Try apt-get install directly geoip-bin package, failed as "already uptodate").
  • Installed module libmaxminddb from git

A ldconfig -p | grep maxminddb command give me :

libmaxminddb.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmaxminddb.so.0
libmaxminddb.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmaxminddb.so

Everything looks fine.

But on nginx dpkg-buildpackage -b, one libmaxminddb check fail with :

dh_shlibdeps
dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/local/lib/libmaxminddb.so.0 (used by debian/nginx/usr/sbin/nginx)
Hint: check if the library actually comes from a package.
dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/nginx.substvars debian/nginx/usr/sbin/nginx returned exit code 2
debian/rules:11: recipe for target 'binary' failed

I really tested everything, installed all lib again from source, tried to install from ubuntu PPA & didnt found any debian repo URL to add to my list. Just to know, i tried : 

apt-get install libmaxminddb0 libmaxminddb-dev mmdb-bin

Fail with packet not found. Regarding this, i removed geoip --add-module before nginx build and the build-package worked perfectly.

Thanks a lot

Solution

  • You can ignore missing info warnings by using
    dh_shlibdeps --dpkg-shlibdeps-params=--ignore-missing-info

    This answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/14992359 solved same problem for me